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The bastard has the cheek to sneer at me.
“Uh, I think you’ll find it is. We were together for seven years, if you remember? I think they’d be pretty pissed to find out I knew you were a hooker and didn’t give them a heads up.”
“Connor!” I hiss. “Don’t you fucking dare! Don’t even think about it!”
“I won’t have to if you see sense and get the fuck out of here. Like I said, a bit more time and I’ll be hitting high. The bright lights are calling, and we can go together, me and you.”
“Are you fucking serious?”
“Why wouldn’t I be? I love you, Ella. I always have. If you’d have just fucking replied to me, maybe we’d be through it by now.”
I gesture towards the dining room. “Yeah? Well, it doesn’t seem like your hot new girlfriend in the music industry knows that, does she? Shall we go and tell her now? Get it all out in the open? See how much of a twin flame she feels when she knows she means sweet fuck all to you, like I did.”
I see the flash of fear in his eyes. I’ve got him by the balls right back.
I guess Carly has brought him more contacts than he was willing to give credit for. He needs her, at least for now.
“Let’s get out of here,” I say. “This situation looks weird enough, without people thinking we’re taking a shit together.”
“We haven’t resolved anything.”
“There is nothing to resolve. You’re a cunt and I’m a whore. End of. Now, back to dinner. We keep our mouths shut and eat our carrots. Job fucking done.”
I only hope I’m conveying more confidence than I’m feeling.
“Ella,” he tries again, still holding the door, but I tug at his wrist, trying to get the fuck out of there.
“Let me out!” I snap, and the door swings open wide.
But it isn’t Connor in charge of the door handle, it’s Josh, and he pulls me to him, wrapping an arm around my waist as he looks my ex up and down.
“It’s ok,” I say to Josh. “We were just leaving.”
“No, we weren’t,” Connor says. “We’ve got things to talk about, Ells.”
Josh looks at Connor like he’s nothing but shit. Apt observation.
“I think you should get back to your girlfriend at the table, don’t you? I’ll stay here with mine.”
Josh’s tone is so strong. Confident. Powerful.
All the things I love about him.
“Go on,” he says. “My sister is waiting for you. Get out of here.”
Connor holds his jaw high as he pushes his way past us, a glint of hatred in his eyes. One I haven’t seen from him before. He’s cocky, but never menacing, but with Josh…
The two of them are as cold as ice, glaring at each other.
“Ella’s not your fucking girlfriend,” Connor says. “She’s your whore.”
With that Mr Twin Flames adjusts his collar and puts on his swagger, and heads on back to the dinner table.
Josh’s mood changes in an instant. He closes the bathroom door and shuts us back in, safe from prying eyes. He brushes a thumb across my cheek and looks me right in the eyes, his gaze full of concern.
“What happened in here? Are you ok?”
I stare back at the true love of my life, and it’s such a contrast from looking at Connor that I take a deep breath, calling on the angels for some perspective. But they’ve already given it.
